Myron is summoned to Paris at the behest of an old lover, Terese. She is in unspecified trouble & needs his help.
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Stephen Swan is amazed when he hears that the uncle he thought had been killed in the Blitz is actually alive. For nearly four decades, Eldritch Swan has been locked away in an Irish prison & now, at last, has been released. Shocked & suspicious, Stephen listens to the old man's story & is caught up in a tale that begins at the dawn of World War II, when Eldritch worked for an Antwerp diamond dealer with a trove of Picassos--highly valuable paintings that later disappeared. Stephen, who finds his uncle by turns devious, charming, & brazen, then meets Rachel Banner, a beautiful American who may have inherited the Picassos--and is determined to see justice done for her family. But in this tale of revenge & redemption, justice is the ultimate illusion. Eldritch, Stephen, & the woman Stephen has fallen in love with soon find themselves fighting for their lives--against sinister forces still guarding a secret that must never be revealed, 17.8cm x 11cm x 3.3cm, pages 541.